The only that that I worry about with Dead Outlaw is that it may never get this good again.

You.

It's surreal because like you see your face up there and it's like, oh my gosh.

And we're in Times Square.

We have beautiful people walking by.

Hi!

You know, like, it's just great to be a part of New York City like this.

This is the day that we could all come together and go out to Coney Island to do like a big social media capture., Photo shoots, Like a big junket of just stuff that we can use to promote the show and all this.

I'm excited to see all these guys and hang out with them today.

and have you guys!

What's up you guys?

Hello!

The story of Dead Outlaw is about Elmer McCurdy, who was shot and killed by a sheriff's posse after attempting to rob a train.

And once he died, that's when his showbiz career really took off, for the next 60 years or so.

Whenever I've done a show that's gone to Broadway, it knew it was going to Broadway.

Like you're going do.

You're doing like you're out of town try out, stuff like that.

This was just like a cool artistic thing that we were doing down at the Minetta Lane.

It's been an exciting year of every person you come across saying "Is Dead Outlaw going to Broadway?"

and now we can say, yes, it is.

This show is very American.

You know, we sort of we find ourselves in the Wild West.

We find ourselves in Hollywood in the 40s, all centered around a basement, high school garage band.

Yeah, this is so cool.

I'm having, like, such an exciting moment.

Like, this is the first time the whole cast has been together.

Since Off-Broadway it's been like this.

There's, like, all these cameras and people around.

It, like, finally feels real.

We're gonna head outside now.

I try as much as I can to not think about that, actually, because that's where my nerves would start to come up and I would feel like, wow, that's a lot of pressure on me.

So I try to dissipate that by just, you know, appreciating all the other people I get to work with and the story that we were all mutually telling together.

The way I like to approach work is from a company standpoint, because I love the collaboration of theater.

That's why I do it.

That's why I love it.

So it feels cool but I also try to put it in the back of my mind.

You know, that thing of like first day of school before your first rehearsal?

It really does feel like that.

Lisa made me lunch for my first day.

Which is good.

Bye, Lisa.

Love you.

Oh, rain.

It's good luck.

I got to wear my mask.

I feel like at least until Tony Awards.

(Loud Honk) Hey.

Wow.

He was excited for me.

Someone told him it's my my first day of Broadway rehearsals.

I love riding the subway to work, especially after a show when the show started.

This is the best part of the commute right here.

Free the face.

And of course, I'm like 25 minutes early on the first day.

This is it.

I see my company manager in there, Michelle.

She's waiting to greet everyone as they come in today, which is very nice.

We're down at the Bowery Ballroom, and we're having our launch party tonight.

And this is really exciting and unique because usually you do this kind of thing in your rehearsal room.

We've decided to come out here and sort of put on a proper concert.

We're takin' it back, let the white man be Takin' it back, let the white man be That sort of felt like the time that we all came back into our rock star mode with the show.

Death is a business to me.

Oh Yeah!

We just did our soundcheck for all the songs that we're going to do tonight for our launch party.

It was so exciting to get to hear the songs like fed through a rock n roll sound system as they are meant to be heard and played.

You know, Elmer McCurdy is our main character.

Elmer McCurdy is played by Andrew Durand.

We'll be miles away when the sun is dawnin' Ten times more than a man can hold White man's hand in the red man's fold It went so well it ended up making a few things change in the show because we were like, oh, there's such a great vibe and great energy.

We have to find a way to put that into the show.b The show is so good.

It's invigorating.

It raises all these questions and thoughts about life and the time that we're given and what's important and what do we do with it, and what is the legacies that we're leaving behind?

We finished performing at Bowery Ballroom.

We were immediately taken through the audience that had been there to watch us and up to talk to the Press.

Hi, how are you?

Nice job.

Hey.

Thank you.

This is good.

We got lots of, like, tags and stuff on Instagram.

That's what this is for.

You know?

A bunch of people here are taking videos and spreading the good word.

It went well.

It was really fun.

It was so cool.

It was so fun and exciting to get to share the music with people and to just like, remind myself of how awesome this is.

I'm on the moon.

I don't think that's the phrase, but I'm on the moon, baby.

David Yazbek everybody.

What's the password?

Just kidding.

You can come in.

Happy first preview.

Here we are in our lovely Broadway style alleyway.

This is actually a, sort of a black hole where food deliveries get lost just in this nebulous space.

Tonight's the first real full audience I get really nervous.

I get so nervous.

It's also.

This is why we do it.

The audience is what makes theater.

Theater.

So now I would go downstairs and warm up.

It's about a half hour before half hour.

This is the dead version of myself.

I went to someone's apartment in Brooklyn, and they made a mold of my face and my hands and my feet.

But it's pretty freaky to see your own.

Your own face like that.

I have a great reverence for theater and the art form that it is.

And I would not feel right if I just, like, walked on the stage the same way I felt walking down the sidewalk.

I like to sort of have a ritual of getting my body and my voice prepared to do the show.

It's two ways up.

I'll go this way.

It's like a yoga mat up here.

I used to do this Off-Broadway as well.

There is like a small carpet square, and now they've put sort of like a foamy floor up here because they knew I liked to warm up up here.

So they kept it soft, which is nice.

Yeah.

I'm excited.

There's good vibes.

And everybody that's here really wants to be here tonight I assume because this is the first preview It will be hard to just happen to show up to first preview.

So, yeah, I'm excited to share it.

The first preview went so well.

It was a packed house.

So I just, I feel really great.

I'm really excited about what's to come.

I have rehearsal at noon, but right now it's like 11-ish, and I'm doing my second of three on camera interviews.

No!

Because I take myself very seriously in that coffin.

For the last 40 to 45 minutes of the show, I stand dead still in a coffin.

I'm surprised that so many people are so fascinated by the dead body part of it.

It is very hard to do.

Some nights my feet fall asleep and there are tears running down my face trying to keep my eyes open.

I've had like spit fly on my face and I just have to sit there with spit on me.

It's opening day.

I'm feeling very excited.

Keep the energy low key until I get there, because I know it's going to pop up and be like, real zippy.

On opening of a Broadway show, it's pretty much tradition to, you know, give gifts to people.

I got these little coffins and I stained them.

And then I got little skeletons that I spray painted red like my dead body in the show.

We just did the red carpet.

So we took a bunch of pictures.

Now I will go back inside to just, like, focus and get ready to do the show.

This experience means so much.

It's living the dream in the best way.

Opening Dead Outlaw was a dream come true.

I mean, we got to do this downtown a year ago Off-Broadway.

Who knew if it was ever going to become anything?

But here we are on Broadway, our opening day, so I couldn't be happier.